Articles By David Barnard
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Various Broadcasting the Blues Published Jan 29, 2009Celebrating 25 years of Those Lowdown Blues on Phoenix's KJZZ, the harp playing, record producing, club owning and concert promoting host, B...
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Gary Kendall Band Feel Real Strong Published Jan 28, 2009Bassist Gary Kendall is a fixture of Toronto's roots music community. The six-time Maple Blues Award winner for Bass Player of the Year has...
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Garrett Mason Love & Sound Published Jan 28, 2009Garrett Mason's debut, I'm A Man, won the 2005 Juno for Blues Album of the Year. It a nice way for the son of the late Dutch Mason to announ...
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Matthew Stubbs Soul Bender Published Nov 22, 2008In the past ten years, theres been an explosion of young guitar hotshots all inspired by the era when bluesmen like Magic Sam, Freddie King...
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Roxanne Potvin No Love for the Poisonous Published Nov 22, 2008This recording is a major progression for the young Toronto-based artist. Recognized for her powerful, soulful singing and bluesy guitar cho...
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Carlos del Junco Steady Movin' Published Nov 22, 2008Carlos del Junco is one of the worlds leading harmonica players. Since 1993, hes been quietly issuing a steady moving stream of fantastica...
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Paul Reddick Sugar Bird Published Oct 26, 2008Too bad Paul Reddick is a bluesman. Otherwise, hed be receiving the same attention that Canadian songsmiths like Justin Rutledge and Kathle...
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Treasa Levasseur Low Fidelity Published Oct 26, 2008This Toronto-based songstress surprised many with her strong 2006 debut, Not A Straight Line. That recording revealed Levasseurs musical he...
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Byther Smith Blues On The Moon: Live at the Natural Rhythm Social Club Published Sep 28, 2008Recorded in 2007 on the south side, this little gem of a CD (a DVD is also available) is proof of how powerful the Chicago blues style can b...
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Chris James and Patrick Rynn Stop and Think About It Published Sep 28, 2008This CD captures the spirit of 50s Memphis and Chicago blues combo recordings nicely. Guitarist Chris James is a credible vocalist with a p...
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Big Dave McLean Acoustic Blues: Got em from the Bottom Published Sep 28, 2008Big Dave McLean really is big, or at least very tall. His voice is big, about the size of the Saskatchewan horizon, where he was born in 195...
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Honeyboy Edwards Roamin' and Ramblin' Published Apr 28, 2008At 92 years old, Mississippi born Honeyboy Edwards is one of the last remaining musicians with a direct link to the earliest days of recorde...
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Julian Fauth Ramblin' Son Published Apr 28, 2008With his second CD for Electro-Fi Records, Toronto, ONs Julian Fauth has created a blues masterwork. Hes a two-fisted barrelhouse piano pl...
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Roman Carter Never Slow Down Published Apr 28, 2008Roman Carter was born in the first half of the last century in Alabama. Like so many, he sang gospel as a child and later with two siblings...
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Jerome Godboo Humdinger Published Jan 28, 2008From Toronto, ON, Jerome Godboo is a singer and outstanding harp player. In a 20-plus-year career, hes recorded and toured with the Phantom...
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Sam Carr's Delta Jukes Let The Good Times Roll Published Jan 28, 2008Sam Carr is a legendary Delta blues drummer, having recorded with everyone from Sonny Boy Williamson II to Buddy Guy and playing on many Fat...
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Bharath and his Rhythm Four with Junior Watson Friday Night Fatty Published Jan 28, 2008Hearing this CD brings two things to mind. One: are there any better interpreters of traditional Chicago-style harmonica blues alive today?...
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Dave Riley & Bob Corritore Travelin' The Dirt Road Published Nov 21, 2007Riley is a Mississippi born vocalist/guitarist who after a performing hiatus has been active the last ten years, working with the late John...
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Ross Neilsen Early Grave Published Nov 21, 2007From New Brunswick, Neilsens sophomore recording is a major step up from his 2005 debut. Its strengths unrushed, introspective performanc...
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Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan On The Jimmy Reed Highway Published Nov 20, 2007In the 50s, no bluesman was more influential than Jimmy Reed to a generation of young white rocknrollers who would attempt to perform the...